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Anthropic

moderate switch cost

AI API platform offering Claude models for text generation, coding, analysis, and agentic tasks

Has free tier

B

Baseten

moderate switch cost

ML inference platform for deploying and scaling AI models with GPU access and auto-scaling

Has free tier

B

Braintrust

moderate switch cost

AI evaluation and observability platform with evals, scoring, datasets, and prompt playground

Has free tier

C

Cerebras

drop-in switch cost

Ultra-fast AI inference platform with custom wafer-scale chips, 20x faster than conventional GPU inference

Has free tier

C

Cohere

moderate switch cost

Enterprise AI platform with Command language models, embeddings, and reranking APIs

Has free tier

D

DeepSeek

drop-in switch cost

High-performance AI inference API offering DeepSeek-V3 and reasoning models at competitive prices

Has free tier

D

Dify

moderate switch cost

Open-source LLM app development platform with visual workflows, RAG, agent orchestration, and triggers

Has free tier

F

Fireworks AI

drop-in switch cost

High-speed inference platform for open-source and fine-tuned models with tiered token pricing

Has free tier

G

Google AI

moderate switch cost

AI API platform offering Gemini models for text, code, multimodal, and reasoning tasks with generous free tiers

Has free tier

G

Groq

drop-in switch cost

Ultra-fast AI inference platform powered by custom LPU hardware, offering open-source models at low latency

Has free tier

H

Helicone

drop-in switch cost

LLM observability platform with request logging, analytics, caching, and rate limiting

Has free tier

L

LangSmith

moderate switch cost

LLM observability and evaluation platform by LangChain with tracing, testing, prompt management, and deployment

Has free tier

L

Lunary

drop-in switch cost

Open-source LLM observability and analytics platform with traces, evaluations, and prompt management

Has free tier

M

Mistral

drop-in switch cost

European AI API platform offering open-weight and proprietary models with GDPR-compliant EU hosting

Has free tier

O

OpenAI

moderate switch cost

AI API platform offering GPT and reasoning models for text generation, code, and multimodal tasks

Has free tier

O

OpenRouter

moderate switch cost

Unified API gateway to 300+ AI models from 60+ providers with automatic routing and fallback

Has free tier

P

Perplexity

moderate switch cost

AI-powered search engine with real-time web search, citations, and Sonar API for developers

Has free tier

P

Portkey

moderate switch cost

AI gateway and observability platform with routing, caching, guardrails, and prompt management

Has free tier

R

Replicate

moderate switch cost

Run open-source AI models via API with per-second or per-token billing across GPUs

Has free tier

R

RunPod

moderate switch cost

GPU cloud platform for AI inference and training with serverless endpoints and on-demand pods

Has free tier

T

Together AI

drop-in switch cost

Fast inference API for 200+ open-source models with pay-per-token pricing

Has free tier

Z

Zep

significant switch cost

Long-term memory and knowledge graph platform for AI agents and LLM applications

Has free tier